I had never heard of Miss Morse until recently when a few “soundies” came up in my YT feed one day. I was quite impressed by her professionalism and charm, but wasn’t quite sure what to make of her. She seemed to be doing quite a lot of yodeling which didn’t think really became “a thing” in commercial music until Jimmy Rodgers started recording in the late 1920s. So I did a little research and happened upon this double album recording and bought it.
I have a couple of caveats about this release. First of all, there are no citations in the notes (written by the late Ian House), so we don’t know from where the information in the liner notes is derived. Ipso Facto (while I’d like to presume that all the statements are correct), unless we know the sources, we can’t really know what is true and what is hearsay. Secondly, there is no real discographical information provided. What we are told is that the first compact disc is comprised of records released on the Pathé and Perfect labels during the acoustic era, and that the second disc is made up of electrically recorded Columbia releases. However, no matrix or other numbers are provided. (As an aside, my 25-year-old self would probably choke at my making that criticism). So while this is not an archival-level release, your average Jane or Joe Consumer is probably not going to care.
However, what really matters, the
